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2025-02-10T07:19:02-05:00

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The Stupor Bowl

Last updated on: February 10, 2025 at 7:19 am By Ben Witherington

I love sports as much as the next person, almost as much as I dislike the hype that comes with it. But the Super Bowl yesterday was frankly— NON-COMPETITIVE. Poor ole Patrick Mahomes didn’t have even 3 seconds to get rid of the ball, so strong was the pass rush of the Eagles, and they didn’t even blitz. This led to uncharacteristic mistakes, and pretty soon, in fact before half time things were looking really dire for the repeat winners... Read more

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This game was a no brainer

2025-01-23T20:31:09-05:00

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The Speck of Dust– A Symphonic Theological Reflection

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 8:31 pm By Ben Witherington

There are lots of lines in this masterpiece that deserve attention, for example ‘There’s no time no space/ Holy Spirit full of grace’. talking about God’s work of creation, and then more lines about everlasting life. Kudos to Leonid for him and his son putting lyrics to this incredible song written by a friend of Leonid’s who passed away. Read more

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2025-01-27T13:26:44-05:00

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Wright’s Into the Heart of Romans– Part Three

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 1:26 pm By Ben Witherington

The modus operandi of Tom Wright in this book is absolutely commendable, and worth repeating by others. He divides his discussions into three parts: 1) after a fresh translation (including a parallel transliteration of the Greek) there is a looking at the overall structure of a passage, especially including the beginning and end to see where the discussion is going; 2) looking at the connective tissue in the arguments– the conjunctions, or other connections such as gar, de, oti, kai etc.... Read more

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Christ as sin offering

2025-01-27T12:53:22-05:00

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Wright’s Into the Heart of Romans– Part Two

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 12:53 pm By Ben Witherington

By almost universal consent, Romans 8 is a conclusion to a major subsection of Romans. I would say that we have to recognize it as the climax of the positive arguments or ‘probatio’ in Romans before he goes on to argument refuting some common misunderstandings, particularly by Gentiles, about Israel, and whether or not they are still God’s chosen people, if they have not yet accepted Christ as the Jewish Messiah, a people for whom God has a plan. Without... Read more

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and those in Adam

Rom. 7 is about Adam

2025-01-27T10:23:52-05:00

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Wright’s Into the Heart of Romans– Part One

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 10:23 am By Ben Witherington

A very long time ago I invited my old friend to write a substantive commentary for the New Cambridge Commentary Series on Romans. But he had already written 1 or 2 such commentaries at a more lay friendly level, and was not inclined to accept my offer. Here in this commentary on one crucial chapter of Romans, certainly one of the most crucial chapters in all of the Pauline corpus he gives us a sense of what a large Roman... Read more

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Roaming thru the heart of Romans

2025-01-25T13:02:37-05:00

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The Resurrection of Notre Dame Cathedral

Last updated on: January 25, 2025 at 1:02 pm By Ben Witherington

Last June we were in Paris before the Olympics and we went to see lots of things, including walking around Notre Dame, which was not open to the public until last Christmas. For those not able to go see it now, here is a sneak preview. What is amazing is how many millions of euros came from the U.S. to help with the rebuild. This video will tell you just what a monumental task it was. Here are a couple... Read more

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Le eglise magnifique

2025-01-23T09:03:53-05:00

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The Victorians and the Holy Land

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 9:03 am By Ben Witherington

Once in a while a book comes along that is too much fun to put down. This is one of those books. Allan Chapman is in fact an Oxford professor, teaching the history of science, and it shows throughout this book as he shows how scientific discoveries helped make possible the advancement of the fledgling science of Biblical archaeology. The book focuses on major figures who did what can be called adventure tourism to exotic Middle Eastern places, like the... Read more

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How curiosity and treasure hunting leads to exploration

2025-01-22T08:27:16-05:00

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The Annunciation– by Henry Tanner

Last updated on: January 22, 2025 at 8:27 am By Ben Witherington

Art can often convey so much more about a Biblical story than mere words. I’ve just been introduced to this painting by an artist who painted in the late 19th and early 20th century– Henry Tanner (d. 1937). Tanner it is clear wanted to depict a young Mary, surprised or even shocked when the angel came and hailed her and told her the shocking story of what was going to happen to her, provided she agreed to do God’s will. ... Read more

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Greetings Mary highly favored by God

2025-01-13T13:57:33-05:00

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The Abraham Saga– Part Fourteen

Last updated on: January 13, 2025 at 1:57 pm By Ben Witherington

What we know for sure about ANE’s culture is there was a concern for proper burials. The remaining stories in the Abraham cycle are about burials and finding a proper wife for Isaac, from among Abraham’s kin, and not from among the Canaanites . But the initial story in Gen. 23 brings to our attention the Hittites. You would not know this just from reading the Bible but the Hittites had a huge empire, including most of what is Turkey... Read more

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So ends Abraham's adventure

2025-01-13T09:49:31-05:00

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Brain Food

Last updated on: January 13, 2025 at 9:49 am By Ben Witherington

BRAIN FOOD I’ve got a genuine replica brain, It’s a collectible edition, I grant it’s not the latest model, But it’s in good condition. It still processes data pretty well Though there are some memory lapses It knows the difference between good and evil, And even between knaves and apses. There’s minimal start up time with the help of good coffee And it can occasionally multi-task But if you want infallible or perfect You’d best not ask. ... Read more

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